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Notes and links for ECE 401 with Dr. Richard Messner, Fall 2020
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Primary & Secondary Literature
Saving & Citing
Evaluating Your Source
General Outline
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UNH Library places
: in Durham, 3 branch libraries and Dimond Library (
map
;
home page for all libraries)
Engineering, Math & Computer Science Library
- customized resources and services
Special services in Dimond Library:
Dimond Academic Commons
(Library + Writing Center + UNH Academic Technology)
Parker Media Lab (Fall 2020: virtual)
Other customized science libraries you can use:
Chemistry Library
and
Physics Library
Spaces where you can
study, meet, or take a remote class
UNH Library resources:
To find books, journals, films, music: UNH
Library Catalog
(
quick tutorial
)
all physical & online material that you can find by source title, author, keywords
To find & articles + books by article or book title, authors, keywords, etc.:
UNH Library Search Box
Note: this is
not
in-depth for engineering or science
To find articles
(in-depth)
:
choose
Engineering databases
(
for help,
contact me
) or other databases as appropriate
Get
remote (off-campus) access
to library resources
Get general or individualized help with your questions
Contact your subject librarian,
Chris Loughnane
Go to UNH Library's
Ask-A-Librarian
page
When you're at a library, the front desk staff can help you with course reserves, finding & checking out materials, library policies, making requests, and lots more! If you have a print or scanning question at the engineering and science libraries, the front desk staff can help you; at Dimond, the
Academic Technology Service Center
can help you.
Go further
What kind of information do you need?
Primary & secondary literature; peer review
(refereed journals)
Published
literature
vs. published web pages:
Engineering and Technology History WiKi
;
IEEE Xplore
More about searching for books & media:
UNH Library Search Box
(and beyond) with Advanced Search, below (Advanced Search is available for: the UNH Library Catalog; Books & Media Worldwide; and Firstsearch Worldcat);
Example of a
keyword
search and
subject
search for the
topic
of
integrated circuits
Example
of a
keyword
search for
words in a title
:
schaums linear
Author search
,
Title search
(
Halliday, David
) and (
fundamentals of phys
)
Course Reserve search
with an
example
(
phys 407
)
Selected reference books
Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology
(EngrMath Reference QA76 .R434 2003)
Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
(EngrMath Reference TK9 .W55 1999, vols.1-24)
American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences
(online/print)
Subject headings... examples:
Computers
;
Electronic Digital Computers
(add:
History
to either one)
Engineers Biography
Scientists Biography
Last name, first name (ex. Heaviside, Oliver)
Keywords... examples:
Computers
;
"Electronic Digital Computers"
(what happens if you add History?)
Heaviside Oliver
Note:
Keywords can be in any order, but authors and subjects that are people should be typed in Lastname, Firstname or Lastname, First-initial: Heavidside, O..
Specialized databases on branch library website (ex.
Engineering, Math & CS Library
)
All Library Databases
Searching for articles in
Applied Science & Technology Abstracts
(
Example
)
Comparison of databases (below)
Searching for journals (print and electronic):
online catalog
,
A - Z list of electronic journals
,
JSTOR
(
Example
)
Tips and logic:
computer operating system
-- can be interpreted as: computer AND operating AND system
"
computer operating system
"
-- is usually interpreted as a phrase (the words adjacent to each other and in order, just as you input them)
computer
and
"operating system"
-- this will be interpreted as the phrase
operating system
with the word
computer
somewhere in the entry.
For any ending, use the wildcard
*
(asterisk), example:
vehic*
[vehicle, vehicles, vehicular]
AND, OR, NOT -- it's Boolean logic (Smile! see tip sheet)
Managing bibliographies:
Zotero
Citation style for IEEE Transactions, Journals, and Letters:
IEEE Citation Reference
Searching the Web:
evaluate
,
compare
,
and
cite your sources
Google vs. Google Scholar (for more info, see
Inside Search-Google
)
Searching for images: This is a specialty search that most systems do not support, although some show thumbnails so you can tell if an image is included.
Google
Images and
ScienceDirect'
s search of Elsevier scholarly journals are two resources. Flipping through books or encyclopedias in the library works, too!
InterLibrary Loan
Steps in locating literature (below)
What do you really do: Flowchart (below)
If we don't have it
Questions?
Database comparison (microprocessors)
Inspec
(database)
81,426
Compendex
(database)
79,073
IEEE Xplore
(IEEE articles+)
29,538
Applied Science & Technology
(database) 9,899
Web of Science
(database) 11,449
Dissertation Abstracts
(database) 18,800
Access Science
(encyclopedia) 143
Amazon
(books) 41,503
Google
(web pages)
5,630,000
Google Scholar
(articles) 445,000
ScienceDirect
(Reed Elsevier articles)
62,294
ScienceDirect
image search (Reed Elsevier articles) 11,390
ACM Digital Library
(ACM articles)
12,637
ACM Guide to Computing Literature (ACM+major sources) 31,370
JSTOR
(articles)
2,474
For other engineering databases, see the
master list of all UNH databases
.
It's not as complicated as circuit design!
Circuit Design (xkcd Comics)
Remember to ask me (Emily) and library staff for help with library resources, and your professor for help with circuit designs!
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